Does anyone know.....

Myriddin

how long a PPC has to respond to a submitted POPLA appeal?

Edna_Basher

POPLA allows 21 days for the Operator to submit its evidence pack.

This explains why, if a PPC intends to offer no contest it will often leave it to the last minute to inform POPLA (thus giving the appellant the maximum opportunity to cave in and pay up). This also means that the PPC escapes having to pay POPLA's hearing fee.

ParkingEye is the main culprit for this, routinely leaving it until Day 21 before notifying POPLA that it doesn't wish to contest an appeal.

bod1467

Smart probably do this much more often than PE ... there aren't that many Smart POPLA appeals that proceed to a hearing. And this even takes into account that PE will have far more POPLA appeals to contend with, as they issue far more PCNs.

(The above is my opinion - I have no data to support this).

Myriddin

bod1467 wrote: »

Smart probably do this much more often than PE

It was a smart one - I say was because 10 minutes after I made my initial post an e-mail from POPLA arrived stating not so smart didn't want to contest. :beer:
It took them 14 days!

Edna_Basher

It's horses for courses, I suppose.

Of our last 8 completed PE POPLA cases, 7 have ended up with PE withdrawing their claim on or around Day 21. They also lost the 8th case despite making the effort to submit an evidence pack.

We've never been to POPLA with Smart; they've always cancelled at the first stage - which is how it should be if it's clear to the PPC that the appellant has rumbled them.

POPLA must be getting fed up with the increasing number of "no contests". This is a waste not only of POPLA's time, but also (more importantly) that of the appellants.

Surely it's time for POPLA to adopt the old London Councils' rule where the POPLA fee became payable at the time the POPLA Code was issued. This would act as a (conscionable and non-extravagant) deterrent against PPCs continuing with frivolous, invalid claims in the hope that an appellant will lose their nerve and pay before POPLA's deadline for PPC evidence.